Creating an Alphabet Booklet

Suggested Grades

2

Objective

Students will create an alphabet booklet using a word processing program. Through this they will practice the specific word processing skills of formatting, saving, retrieving, editing, cutting & pasting, adding graphics, and typing. Additionally, the language arts skills that will be practiced include letter sound recognition and sentence writing.

Materials

computer with a word processing program

clip art library

disks

Method

Create a new word processing document and name it "alphabet book".

Begin writing a sentence for the letter "A": A is for _________.

Search clip art library for a picture that begins with "A".

Insert the clip art into the document (resize if necessary).

Add another sentence that describes the word.

Repeat process until the letter "Z".

Since this lesson will be done over a few weeks, after each session, save the document.

Print up when finished.

Cut out each page and paste it onto similar size pages into a booklet.